Adolescent: “If You Give Me Some Independence, I’m All In”; The World: “Remain Fully Dependent or You’re Out”, by Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Adolescent: “If You Give Me Some Independence, I’m All In”; The World: “Remain Fully Dependent or You’re Out”

Adolescents are testing the world

By way of their parents–

Will it, will they

Give them what they need

Give them what they are afraid of

Other works by Chris Gaither...

Eyeballs in a Vat

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In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes

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The State of Self-censorship

I don’t have a TV because I would watch it Instead, I watch my mouth

You Are Perfectly Mistaken (and so Am I)

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Eventually, a Blind Alley Becomes a Dark Alley

This is going nowhere so, by all means let’s keep going

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People thought they could finally come and go as they pleased if they could just be rid of the g… only to find in their absence not just more and bigger gates

Date Due: Today, and Today, and Today

My whole life, I thought I’d done… Duly deputized by the law of the l… As enforced by the superego, for w… But due to unforeseen circumstance… When instead of always being due f…

Code Red

The new Speech Code prohibits use of the phrase “Speak for yourself” due to its aggressive tone and threatening connotations

Love is Always Embodied

Money can’t buy me love; Bitcoin doesn’t need to

I’m a Scorpio

Easy to please but problematic to appease

It’s Impossible to Share and Impossible to Be Alone but It’s Possible to Do Both and We Crawled Out of the Ocean to Try

A fishbowl made of screen glass is a fishbowl made for one that is magically adjacent to every other fishbowl in this world we conjured where

Gone

We thought we had finally notched… by confronting Father Time with the paradox of our times when self-defeating is the new win… but we can’t win for losing

History Repeats Itself Because No One Is Listening

Everyone knows it could go either way but no one believes it could have gone either way So we tell ourselves

Haiku

They can’t kick sand in your face if your head is al– ready in the sand